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Social Workers in Schools

Published: 29 Nov 2019

This ERO qualitative case study report undertaken on behalf of Oranga Tamariki captures the voices of children and their whanau who were recipients of the Social Workers in Schools (SWiS) service. SWiS is a government funded, community social work service provided in most English and Māori medium, decile 1-3 primary and intermediate schools.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Social Workers in Schools (SWiS); Social workers; Primary; Intermediate; Pastoral care; Case study; Resilience; Therapeutic care and education (TEC)

Wellbeing for success: a resource for schools

Published: 21 Mar 2016

Wellbeing for success: a resource for schools has been developed to help schools evaluate and improve student wellbeing. It highlights the importance of schools promoting the wellbeing of all students as well as the need for systems, people and initiatives to respond to wellbeing concerns for students who need additional support.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Wellbeing; Mental health; Resilience; Whanaungatanga; Hauora; Health and Physical Education; Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour (RTLB)

Schools’ Provision for International Students

Published: 28 Aug 2013

This national report is ERO’s seventh report about international students. This evaluation included 95 schools (both primary and secondary) and focused on five aspects in relation to international students – integration, progress and achievement, education programme, pastoral care, overall approach and self review.

Audience:: Education; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: International students; Integration; Progress; Achievement; Pastoral care; Curriculum; Te Marautanga o Aotearoa; International education

Wellbeing for Young People's Success at Secondary School

Published: 19 Feb 2015

This report presents the findings of ERO’s evaluation of how well 68 secondary schools in Term 1 2014 promoted and responded to student wellbeing.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Wellbeing; Mental health; Resilience; Responding to issues

Evaluation at a glance: A decade of assessment in New Zealand Primary Schools - Practice and trends

Published: 24 Apr 2018

High quality assessment and evaluation allows us to focus on student progress and outcomes at classroom, school and system levels. It helps teachers, schools and systems to report on student achievement across points in time, and provide information for parents, trustees and the public about the quality of education.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Evaluation; Assessment; Formative assessment; The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS); The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS); Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA); National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA)

Stories of Resilience and Innovation in Schools and Early Childhood Services Canterbury Earthquakes 2010-2012

Published: 16 Jun 2013

This national report gives an insight into what Canterbury schools and early childhood services experienced during and after the earthquakes. It tells their stories and gives good advice about emergency planning for others in the education sector.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Resilience; Canterbury earthquakes; Emergency planning; Employment practices; Community; Wellbeing

Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako in action

Published: 25 Jan 2017

This is the first of a series of iterative reports which draw together what ERO knows about CoL | Kāhui Ako, as they move from establishment to implementation.

Audience:: Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Communities of Learning | Kāhui ako; Progress and Consistency Tool (PaCT)

How ERO reviews

Published: 04 Mar 2021

ERO reviews all early childhood services, kōhanga reo, schools and kura to help their learners flourish. We focus on what’s working well for learners/ākonga and what can improve.

Audience:: Academics; Early learning; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Basic page

Topics:: Kōhanga Reo; Kura; Early childhood services; Evaluation; Schools; School hostels; International students

Te Kahu Whakahaumaru: Māori continue to show resilience across Māori-medium education

Published: 10 Dec 2020

In Aotearoa, Māori-medium education experienced significant disruption when the outbreak of Covid-19 forced kura to close their doors, and whānau and kaiako to adjust to home schooling and distance learning. Among the many challenges were access to technology and resources with Māori communities among the most affected.

Audience:: Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Early Childhood Education (ECE); Schools; Māori-medium; Teachers | Kaiako; Resilience; Te Pou Mataaho | Evaluation and Research Māori

Mahi Ngātahi, Tupu Ngātahi, Evaluation Report for Kura Kaupapa Māori

Published: 17 Nov 2021

Central to this report is the common reflection of participating kura kaupapa Māori, that their journeys, both as individuals and as kura whānau, are stories of collective aspirations held within the narrative of establishment, building and subsequent maintenance of their respective kura and kaupapa.

Audience:: Māori-medium

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Kōhanga Reo; Te Kōhanga Reo

E kore au e ngaro, Evaluation Report for Ngā Kura ā-Iwi

Published: 19 Nov 2021

This report is the reflection of Kura ā-Iwi on their developmental journeys, both as individuals, whānau and as kura. Their collective aspirations are captured within the summary of conditions outlined as Ako: Teaching & Learning, Whānau & Connectedness, Tikanga Māori (Māori process and protocol), and Tuakiri: Identity.

Audience:: Māori-medium

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Kōhanga Reo; Te Kōhanga Reo

Framework for Kōhanga Reo reviews

Published: 31 Mar 2021

This framework contains information about the process that the Education Review Office (ERO) uses for managing kōhanga reo reviews. This information forms part of ERO’s standard procedures for reviews of kōhanga reo.

Audience:: Early learning; Education; Māori-medium; Parents

Content type:: Basic page

Topics:: Kōhanga Reo; Standard Procedures; Te Aho Matua

Te Kura Huanui: The treasures of successful pathways

Published: 08 Jul 2021

Te Kura Huanui: The treasures of successful pathways and supporting documentaries explore the Māori-medium education pathway, through a rich collection of interviews and research conducted in partnership with early founders, whānau, leaders, graduates, kaiako, kaimahi and kaumatua.

Audience:: Māori-medium

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Best practice; Community; Diversity; Equitable outcomes; Immersion; Inclusion; Identity; Kōhanga Reo; Kauapapa Māori; Kura; Knowledge building; Māori-medium; Mātauranga Māori; Māori student achievement; Māori parents and whanau; Māori learners; Māori immersion; Māori Education Evaluation; Manaakitanga; Māori; Literacy and numeracy; Methodology; Te Kōhanga Reo; Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust; Te reo Māori; Te Rūnanga Nui o ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori o Aotearoa; Teachers | Kaiako; Teaching; Tikanga Māori; Te ao Māori; Wellbeing; Whānau; Whanaungatanga; Children's success

Te Kura Huanui : Ko ngā kura o ngā ara angitu

Published: 08 Jul 2021

I roto i Te Kura Huanui: Ko ngā kura o ngā ara angitu, ko ngā uiui me ngā whānau Māori, kaiārahi, kaiako, kaimahi, kaumātua hoki e tūhura ana i te ngākau titikaha o ngā hapori ki te whakarauora, ki te whakapakari hoki i te reo Māori me ngā tikanga Māori mō ā rātou mokopuna, tamariki, uri whakatupu anō hoki.

Audience:: Māori-medium

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Best practice; Community; Diversity; Equitable outcomes; Immersion; Inclusion; Identity; Kōhanga Reo; Kauapapa Māori; Kura; Knowledge building; Māori-medium; Mātauranga Māori; Māori student achievement; Māori parents and whanau; Māori learners; Māori immersion; Māori Education Evaluation; Manaakitanga; Māori; Literacy and numeracy; Methodology; Te Kōhanga Reo; Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust; Te reo Māori; Te Rūnanga Nui o ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori o Aotearoa; Teachers | Kaiako; Teaching; Tikanga Māori; Te ao Māori; Wellbeing; Whānau; Whanaungatanga; Children's success

Āhuru Mōwai, Evaluation report for Te Kōhanga Reo

Published: 29 Nov 2021

This report is the reflection of Kōhanga Reo on their particular educational approach. Their collective aspirations are captured within the summary of conditions outlined as Whanaungatanga, Strategy, Tikanga Māori, Te Reo Resurgence, Kaumātua, Ako: Teaching and Learning, and Leadership.

Audience:: Māori-medium

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Kōhanga Reo; Te Kōhanga Reo

Teaching approaches and strategies that work

Published: 24 Nov 2017

This evaluation looks at teaching approaches and strategies used in schools where there has been a significant increase in the number of students at or above National Standards in the upper primary school years (Years 5 to 8). We wanted to learn more about any short-term interventions or long-term strategies that may have been influential in bringing about these positive achievement trajectories. We have shared and discussed our findings from some of the 40 schools we visited.

Audience:: Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP); National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA); Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Teaching strategies that work - Reading

Published: 14 May 2018

The Education Review Office (ERO) has released the latest in its Teaching Strategies that Work series. “Keeping children engaged and achieving in reading” is a description of strategies used by primary schools which have significantly improved their students’ achievement in reading.

Audience:: Education; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Reading; Engagement; Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA); National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA); Accelerated learning

Teaching strategies that work - Mathematics

Published: 20 Feb 2018

This Education Review Office (ERO) report is one of a series of reports on teaching strategies that work. It features strategies and approaches that we observed in 40 primary schools selected from across New Zealand. These schools came from a database of 129 schools, all with rolls of 200 or more, in which the proportion of students in the upper primary years (Years 5 to 8) achieving at or above the national standard had increased. In each case achievement levels were also above average for the decile.

Audience:: Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Engagement; Achievement; Mathematics; National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA); Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Your child's education

Published: 14 Mar 2014

These booklets have been written for everyone who parents a child - those who have care and responsibility for children attending a school. The booklets include questions you can ask, as well as general information that you may find useful. Click on the booklet to read and download.

Your child's education is an overview of education in New Zealand, from early childhood education through to secondary school. The information and questions are a useful insight into what education looks like in New Zealand and the opportunities available to your child.

Audience:: Early learning; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Parents; Aiga; Māori parents and whanau; Early Childhood Education (ECE); Primary; Intermediate; Secondary; Alternative education (AE); Kaupapa Māori; Kōhanga Reo; Ngā puna kōhungahunga; Ngā Whanaketanga Rumaki Māori; State schools; Integrated schools; Kindergartens; Education and care services; Home-based education; Playcentres; Playgroups; Guides for parents

Te Whāriki (2017): Awareness Towards Implementation

Published: 12 Dec 2019

ERO’s final report in the Te Whāriki series summarises the findings of previous reports and includes the last two focus areas for the curriculum – how services decide ‘what learning matters here’ and how well they were developing learning-focused partnerships with parents and whānau.

Audience:: Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te Whāriki; Te Marautanga o Aotearoa; Teachers | Kaiako